Consider an unknown polynomial which when divided by
and
leaves remainders 2 and 1 , respectively. Let
be the remainder when this polynomial is divided by
.
(i) If equation
has two distinct real roots, then exhaustive values of
are
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(i) , (ii) , (iii)
Let unknown polynomial be
. Let
and
be the quotient and remainder, respectively, when it is divided by
. Then,

Then, we have


Given that
and
. Hence,
and 
and 

(i) 

Given that roots are real and distinct. Therefore,

which is true for all real
.
(ii) 

Now,
and equation has no distinct real roots or equation has real and equal or imaginary roots. Then,


Hence, the least value of
is
.
(iii) 

Now,
is real, then





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